Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-12-23
HORSE GOSSIP.

Robert Bonner has Maud S. in New
York now and is driving her double with
Pickard.
Lucky" Baldvin's Santa Anita stable
won Sll2,527 last season, Emperor of Nor
folk heading the list with S31, 40; Los
Angeles second, with 81, 435. and Volante
third, with $50, 1871
The first meeting of the Board of APP
peals of the American Trotting associa-
ton opened at the Sherman House, Chi
cago, ILL.,, on Tuesday and closed on We'd
nesday. Mr.. Charles Green, president of
the st. Louis Fair association, presided.
The members of the Board of Review
present were: r. w. Gilett, w. p.
Jams and G. NJ. Cottrill. All of the ring
ers that have been pirating on the West
ern Trotting associa tons for years We're
brought up and expelled. The board also
recognized the ruling of the National
Trotting association by eXpelling George
Tufts, for alleged pulling of Loretta F.,
from all tracks under its jurisdiction
Senator Palmer of Michigan has sent an
accredited agent to Europe to purchase Il
number of choice Percheron stations and
mares. Then his agent will proceed to
Arabia and secure five of the best Arabian
stations that can be bought. Brought to
this country the Arabs and Percherons
will he bred together, and the produce
bred again.
Five horses were burned in Bowerman
Bros ables, located on the fair grounds,
Lexington, Ky, last Wednesday after
noon, as follows; Clement NJ, five years
old, by Red Wilkes, dam by Mambrino
Patcben, owned by Bowerman Bros, and
recently purchased for $1,000; Forest
Sprague, six years old, by Governor
Sprague, dam by Edwin Forest, owned by
G. y. Larney, New York, and valued at
5000; yearling calf lnwood, by Wedg
wood, dam by George Wilkes, owned by
John 5. Clark and valued at $1,000 brown
saddle horse owned by John Ryan of New
York, valued at 1900 and Mat, the famous
old family mare of the late Hon. NJ. c.
Johnson, valued at $500
Mr.. James Hastings of Brandon has re
fused $1,000 70: his Redpath mare from
New York parties. The above mare was
bred by +. 7. Adams of Pittsford and sold
fer less than $500 last spring
f. G. Hastings of Damariscotta, Me-,
has sold his noted PAGER, Aral, to Boston
parties for big money. Aral is gray geld
ng, and was bred in this country by j. e.
Spaulding of North Haven. He has a rec
ord close to 20, and is a valuable animal.
An offer of s., 500 for the bay gelding
Ben starr was not long ago refused by
his owners, Paige Bros. of Akron, O. Ben
Starr has a pacing record of 2;2O3 as Il
PAGER and , 2ll4 as trotter, being about
equally good at either gait.
The latest advices from California are
to the effect that since going in , 81 Nor
laine has shown half-mile IN Iii, and
that Marvin thinks she can surely beat
230. Her record of 2:3ll9 was made in
the morning, and San Francisco papers
say that she made the first quarter in 80
seconds, a short break AT the turn having
slowed her up some. The second quarter
was done in 36i2 seconds, Il 2.26 clip, and
the next in $50.
The recent performance of the year
old filly Maiden by Electioneer, that trot-
ted a mile in 2:23, has called attention to
another of the produce of her dam, May
Queen. This is a brown gelding, six years
Old by Gov Sprague, that was bred by
Mr.. Joseph Harker of New York city be-
fore he sold May Queen to Senator Stan
ford and that is still owned by him. He
is fast, and next year an effort to beat
2;30 with him will be made.